(Ben) For those of you who may still think of economics as "the dismal science," I would refer you to this article in Time magazine. Unfortunately, the web version is missing the snazzy layout it got in the print version, as well as the pictures, but the text is there. It turns out that, according to Time at least, economics is becoming chic and sexy. What do you know? For a long time economists just stuck to their prescribed fields (finance, labor, macro, micro, etc.), but in recent years some of them have begun to branch out to different areas (crime, behavioral science, and, uh, sumo wrestling) and it turns out that economic methods may have a few things to add to those areas. What's more, even the more mainstream economics stuff is getting a bit more notice in the media these days thanks to growing concerns about globalization and terrorism, making it a pretty interesting field to be in these days. I've actually been meaning to add a couple of the books the article mentions to our booklist (Freakonomics and Blink)--I'll try to get to those in the next few days. Anyway, thought I'd let you all know that I'm becoming more chic and sexy by the minute! Just wait till I get my PhD . . . I'll be irresistably attractive. :)
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Chic-onomics
(Ben) For those of you who may still think of economics as "the dismal science," I would refer you to this article in Time magazine. Unfortunately, the web version is missing the snazzy layout it got in the print version, as well as the pictures, but the text is there. It turns out that, according to Time at least, economics is becoming chic and sexy. What do you know? For a long time economists just stuck to their prescribed fields (finance, labor, macro, micro, etc.), but in recent years some of them have begun to branch out to different areas (crime, behavioral science, and, uh, sumo wrestling) and it turns out that economic methods may have a few things to add to those areas. What's more, even the more mainstream economics stuff is getting a bit more notice in the media these days thanks to growing concerns about globalization and terrorism, making it a pretty interesting field to be in these days. I've actually been meaning to add a couple of the books the article mentions to our booklist (Freakonomics and Blink)--I'll try to get to those in the next few days. Anyway, thought I'd let you all know that I'm becoming more chic and sexy by the minute! Just wait till I get my PhD . . . I'll be irresistably attractive. :)
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I've read Freakonomics - it's an interesting read. Who knew you could determine what your child will be just by their name!!
You just think you're sooo fine. This post makes me want to barf... ;)
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